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- White Wine
- Assyrtiko
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.00% alc./vol
Press Reviews
WineAlign
94 points - David Lawrason
This has a quite fine, delicate and complex nose of hay, wildflowers, leesy spice and vague tropical fruit. Perhaps some fennel as well. It is notably rich yet elegant, much more so than expected from assyrtiko. Powerful too at $14% alcohol. It is creamy and almost lush but the minerality and warmth keep it in check. Flavours have excellent to outstanding length. Some bitterness and a salty tang on the finish. Clearly an elite white that needs some attention.
- White Wine
- Assyrtiko
- Volcanic
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 14% alc./vol
Press Reviews
WineAlign - Michael Godel
95 Points
Vassaltis was the dream and now life's work of Yannis Valambous who resurrected his father's vineyards and turned them into some of Santorini's finest tracts. As of 2012 the project has taken root, launched forward and come to a most profound and exciting place. The consulting oenologists are Elias Roussakis and Yannis Papaeconomou who along with Valambous drill down into the island's volcanics to create haute assyrtiko with the greatest sense of place. The barrel aged style is of course Burgundian but it is impossible to smother Santorini and fully assimilate assyrtiko. Richness abounds, intensity magnifies and here assyrtiko takes on a whole next level of purpose. The methodology does allow for movement not wholly restricted to the salty and the mineral but the wine shows no lack of those elements. In the end this is about as big and rich as the grape will get. Drink 2023-2028. Tasted January 2023
- White Wine
- Assyrtiko
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 3 g/l
- 750ml
- 14% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Align
95 points - David Lawrason
This pours surprisingly deep yellow. It has soft, mellow and ripe nose but not at all dull. There is a certain paraffin candle waxiness from volcanic origins that I really like, along with yellow mango/apricot, and fresh rosemary/oregano herbality. It is medium-full, almost lush in texture - very smooth, warm and mouthcoating with good acidity and all kinds of spice and minerality on the finish. The length is excellent to outstanding.
- Red Wine
- Agiorgitiko, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Align
92 points - David Lawrason
This combines local agioritiko with cabernet sauvignon and merlot to create a deeply coloured, still youthful looking and fairly dense well made wine. The nose is very ripe with blackberry, violet, a touch of herbaceousness and spice. Vanilla is nicely tucked as well. It is medium-full bodied with some nerve and juiciness, and fine, firm tannin. The length is excellent. Still needs a couple of years. Tasted July 2022
91 points - John Szabo, MS
A "super Peloponnese" blend of local agiorgitiko with cabernet sauvignon and merlot, harvested very ripe and treated to two years ageing in barrique, this is smooth and polished wine, broad, round and satisfying. There's a highly appealing, savoury, sapid profile, with gently grippy tannins, almost fully enmeshed in the ensemble; acids are balanced and 14.5% alcohol warms the palate but fits in well overall. Very good length and depth. An excellent value all in all, drinking well now but no rush - cellar comfortably until late in the decade. Serve with salty protein for best effect. Tasted July 2022.
91 points - Michael Godel
As with the Goldvine this special cuvée is Peloponnese in origin but here the blend is cabernet sauvignon (and merlot) with local agiorgitiko. Not Nemea but the layering of the signature Greek red grape works seamlessly with the expatriate grapes. A bigger wine any way you look at or taste what's in the glass and though it seems a bit candied you simply can't ignore or deny the herbology within. Mint in double effect, brushy fauna throughout and then a waft of chocolate. Were the oak treatment just a bit restrained the land would shine even further and take this cuvée to another level entirely. Drink 2022-2026. Tasted July 2022.
- Red Wine
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 3 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.8% alc./vol
Press Reviews
James Suckling
93 Points - 2020 Vintage
A linear and very clean, single-varietal red with blackberry, black-cherry and orange-peel aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with a fresh and tense finish. Sophisticated and focused. Spontaneous fermentation in amphora and open-top barrels. Aged in amphora. Drink or hold.
- Red Wine
- Natural, Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Align
92 Points - David Lawrason
This is very much in the realm of natural wine - fermented with native yeasts in amphora, further aged in amphora and bottled without filtration. So it does have a slightly hazy appearance and pale gold/orange colour. The nose shows subtle tea, herbs, orange peel and apricot pit. It is medium weight, dry, quite intensely flavoured and somewhat grapefruity bitter on the finish, with some tannin in play. Excellent length. Tasted July 2022
- Red Wine
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 4 g/l
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 13% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Align
90 Points - Michael Godel
A more than curious endemic blend conjoins xinomavro with limniona and mavroudi in a most drinkable and accessible Greek red. Easy in most respects, simple as promised and apt as professed. Not a wine of rapture per se but surely one of aperture, whose scented length of the aromatic system determines the flavour angle of a bundle of fruits that come to a focus on the palate plane. The linearity and ultimately a settling make this work quite well and in the most basic of ways. Drink 2022-2024. Tasted March 2022.
James Suckling
91 Points
A red with crushed stones, plums and sliced lemons that follow through to a medium body, fine tannins and a creamy-textured finish. Not the most complex red, but delicious. Fermented in amphora and barrel. Drink now.